Rock N’ Roll Diary: February 24

** FILE ** John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono raise their fists as they join a protest by about 500 persons in front of British Overseas Airways Corp. offices in New York in this Feb. 5, 1972, file photo. The demonstrators called for the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland. "The U.S. VS. John Lennon," is a documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, file)

John Lennon and Yoko Ono raise their fists as they join a protest by about 500 persons in front of British Overseas Airways Corp. offices in New York on Feb. 5, 1972. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, file)

In 1981, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Double Fantasy” won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Yoko assembled outtakes from that album into another posthumous Lennon release three years later. What was that called?

1976:The Eagles received the first platinum distinction for sales of a million copies of their Greatest Hits album. Previously, the only award for record sales was the gold album, awarded when a release sold 500,000 copies.

1979:The Police released the single “Roxanne” in America. It had already become a hit in England.

1981:John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s “Double Fantasy” album received a Grammy for Album of the Year. It was Lennon’s final completed work before he was assassinated the previous December.

1990: A concert tribute to Roy Orbison reunited the original Byrds at L.A.’s Universal Amphitheater.

1993:Eric Clapton was the big winner at the Grammys, taking home six awards including Album of the Year honors for his Unplugged album.

2008: A statue of late AC/DC frontman Bon Scott was erected in his hometown of Fremantle, Western Australia.

From the WZLX ticket stash…Joan Jett played Northeastern University’s Cabot Hall in 1989!